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The Year of Lying Dangerously

In 2021, truth is stranger than fiction

9 January 2021

9:00 AM

9 January 2021

9:00 AM

‘Ring out the old, ring in the new, ring out the false, ring in the true,’ wrote Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is hard to think of a more fitting sentiment at the start of 2021 after a plague of falsehoods foisted on us for our own good. If 2020 was the Year of Lying Dangerously, 2021 is set to become the Year of Truth Stranger Than Fiction.

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